by Steve Ersinghaus

Tag Archives: infinity

in poetry the poet, or whomever has a stick and sand available, may tell the story of a grain of salt, yes that grain of salt, that escapee from bubbling water or Tecate beer, which is made for salt and lemon, or from a bad experience with a chicken doomed for the grill, the salt […]

100 Days :: Summer 2011

This will be my fourth year participating in the fun, exciting, and challenging 100 Days projects: year 1 I wrote one hundred poems; year two I wrote one hundred stories; year three I wrote 100 fictions. For 2011 I will round things out with another 100 poems.

But what's the intention. This summer my focus will be on hunting things down and tagging, hyperlinking, and using social media to identify those found items that inspire the poems. I will be watching for what the artists, musicians, and other creators do and will try to make poetry out of "found relationships." But also thinking hard about imagery, language, and orthographics. I've never been comfortable with punctuation in poetry but I am fascinated by putting heavy trucks on the edges of leaves or turning one celled creatures into things that point north, where yellow ducks live.